I have a server which restarted by itself early this morning , to be exact. I've done some investigating, and I can't, so far, find the cause. The strange activity seemed to start around am. In the System log, at am, I get event 26, a popup saying there are other users logged in, do you want to continue restart?
The process wininit. It wasn't a Windows Update I checked the update history. All it has it the record of the graceful shutdown and the boot. There were no strange logins during this time. Services logged in a couple of times. At , all of the running processes logged off including a strange umfd-4 user, which appears to be some kind of system-based font driver account. I couldn't find this anywhere in AD or the local users and groups, but perhaps I didn't look hard enough.
I am running a network monitor software on this system PRTG , and it did an auto update at 3am. If it is set to auto update, it can cause a reboot without clearly indicating it. Regards, Dave Patrick I've used Procmon before. Since this occurs seemingly randomly, I would almost have to have procmon running all the time. Is that possible? If you face any Windows issues in future, let us know and we would be glad to assist you. Please provide a copy of your System Information file.
Open System Information, select File, Export and give the file a name noting where it is located. Please upload to your Sky Drive, share with everyone and post a link here. Please upload and share with everyone copies of your System and Application logs from your Event Viewer to your Sky Drive and post a link here. Do the same for the Applications log. Anne's Guest Home. We recently purchased and set up two new Windows 8 computers.
Each of them has experienced the same problem twice: without warning or visable reason, they give a blue screen that says the computer has to restart. I went into the systems advanced settings and de-selected the box for restart upon system failure but again today one of them restarted itself.
This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Previous Next. Method 1: Try in Clean Boot and check if you still face the issue.
Method 2: I suggest you to disable the antivirus and check if it helps. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.
In reply to A. User's post on March 15, It is a Gateway - I do not know what the model would be. It did it again so I wrote down what it says Here in this article, you can find various solutions to fix the Windows keeps restarting error. There are many causes of windows keep restarting or if the PC gets caught in an infinite restart loop.
There are many causes for this error and this can include faulty program installation, bad registry and some other causes. A computer may restart itself when it experiences some glitches and the operating system tries to recover from it.
A faulty software or virus infection can do a lot of damage to the system and to prevent such damage, Windows keeps restarting. This is configured in the Startup options. If the Windows gets stuck in the continuous reboot loop, you can't do anything to recover from the problem.
But fortunately, you can disable the automatic restart feature in the startup and recovery options and boot to the desktop.
Then you can try to find the cause of the problem. Step 3: After booting into Windows through safe mode, go to the search box in the start and make a search for "sysdm. Step 4: At the dialog box, go to the "Advanced" tab and click "Settings" beneath the Startup and Recovery option.
Bad or corrupted registry can prevent the system from booting normally and this can cause the Windows keeps restarting problem. There are many reasons why the registry will get damaged or corrupted like Windows update, drivers update, installing obsolete software etc.
All of these results in Windows becoming unable to load and caught in an endless reboot loop. To solve the problem you can try to remove the damaged or corrupted entry from the PC and see if the error persists.
Step 4: Backup the registry in case something unexpected happens by clicking on the File Menu and then "export". Select the file name and location of the backup file. If your Windows keeps restarting, then the problem may be caused by the outdated device drivers, especially if you have updated the OS. Automatic restart of a computer is a protection mechanism triggered when windows experience some abnormality. It is to prevent the system from any kind of damage.
Outdated device drivers can be the cause various types of damages and to solve the problem, you need to update them.
0コメント